Linda J. Lee

WTF?

A big part of the authoritarian playbook is war. War takes over the news. War blots out criticism. War divides a nation’s people, subjecting those against it to being called unpatriotic. War grants leaders all sorts of emergency powers. War consumes everything else.

We mustn’t let this war do so.

I'm exhausted by all the efforts to rewrite the history of the 2022 US Senate primary in Pennsylvania, with folks insisting "we told you so!" as to Fetterman, that Conor Lamb was always the better choice, and generally ignoring Malcolm Kenyatta's historic candidacy.

So let me say a few things. 🧵1/

"American innovation" now refers to making a kind of atrocity cronut by combining insider trading with war crimes.

We did have extensive testing of the dick whistles, surprising no one, I'm sure. 😂 But when romance authors are in charge you only send out consensual dick whistles.

LINDSEY GRAHAM: Our goal is to make sure Iran cannot become again the largest state sponsor of terrorism.

WELKER: Does the the president have a plan to guarantee that happens?

GRAHAM: No. It's not his job.

If America still had the rule of law, this would be the easiest prosecution ever, but we all know absolutely nothing will happen.

Tonight on D&D in order to crack a code we had to play Six Degrees of Wikipedia and as a group we needed to get from the page "Listed buildings in Lichfield" to the page Spelljammer 5e by clicking as few links as possible and somehow we managed to do it in 4 clicks?????

President Trump has just launched another illegal attack on Iran after he claimed the attack in June 'obliterated' Iran’s nuclear program. He has not gotten authorization from Congress to go to war. That power belongs to Congress, not the President. Americans do not want war in the Middle East.

I will also allow for the HEA or HFN coming at the end of a trilogy or similar. (Heated Rivalry, I'm looking at you!)

But no no no, don't go after those sweet sweet romance dollars and then break our trust.

An EO like this won't have the force of law, will it? Won't states need to change state law and procedures to comply?

Seriously. I made this exact point to MAGA relatives on Christmas eve when they referred to the DoW. You will be shocked - shocked, I say! - to hear that my BIL immediately then moved on to an ad hominem attack.

Nearly 25 years after graduate workers began organizing at Penn, GET-UP is making history As members vote to ratify the agreement this week, Graduate Employees Together — University of Pennsylvania's success represents the culmination of nearly 25 years of organizing at Penn.

Penn's grad union twenty five years in the making

Those of us who were a part of GET-UP 1.0 are so proud of & happy for our successors

One of my go-to examples for this is "how do we know the earth is round?" In 6 years of lessons, I had only two students say "I've done the math."

Oooh! This! When I taught Intellectual Heritage (humanities gened req) at Temple, we had a unit on "ways of knowing and faith." My unit intro lesson challenged students to think critically about how they know what they know. I suggested two ways- personal experience or trusting an authority.

I continue to be fascinated by the phenomenon whereby an expert engages with any of the LLMs on their field of expertise and is instantly horrified by the wrong answers, and then goes on to use it for things they are not experts in as though it won’t be just as bad for those.

The cutest thing cats do is hold you down with one paw while they groom you

Like excuse me miss but you weigh eight pounds??

"Meep!"

Well no I'm not going to move, but

Exactly!

"A Government Tariff Refund Bait and Switch" www.wsj.com/opinion/a-go...

This x 10000:

people are honestly still so scared of feminism including just the word "feminism" and it would be funny if it weren't so sad. some men will go to their graves defending actively hilariously offensive portrayals of men in games/tv/movies bc they're so scared of engaging with feminism at all

Wednesday in Philadelphia. Details and tickets at events.ticketleap.com/tickets/prof... .

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omg everybody go draw a horse this is what the internet was made for

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Pop star Bad Bunny needed a Puerto Rican history scholar. UW–Madison had just the one. Bad Bunny collaborated with UW–Madison history professor Jorell Meléndez-Badillo on Puerto Rican narratives that accompany the new album “DeBÍ TiRAR MáS FOToS.”

Not at all surprised to learn that Bad Bunny has a historical adviser. His halftime show was a reminder that our history and culture are deeply intertwined with the rest of the western hemisphere. We should think of his performance as part of #America250. #SuperBowl
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This is like the close reads on judicial opinions that many of us like to provide ... but now, for the Bad Bunny Super Bowl. 🧵

Disturbingly detailed analysis of my first rewatch incoming

This is incredibly cool — A source familiar with Bad Bunny’s performance tonight tells me that the couple in the halftime show got married for real. They invited Bad Bunny to their wedding and in turn he invited them to get married during his performance.

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Simply on a live performance stagecraft-design-camerawork-logistics-direction level, this is ASTOUNDING.

That critique of the government extracting resources from PR. The power poles.

OK "god bless america" and then naming every country in the americas from south to north is absolute king shit

everyone please check on your adhd friends; they’re probably solving problems that didn’t exist when they woke up